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Well, if you're gonna have good guys, ya gotta have some bad guys for them to beat up on, right? So here they are. More troops from the folks at Black Powder Red Earth, and though they couldn't possibly be as cool as the good guys, they're still pretty damn good figures, with great poses and detail on weapons and gear. Let's get right to it.
My bad guys: I've got some Middle Eastern irregulars (in accordance with the books), which I painted up in all black, a la ISIS. Then you've got some Middle Eastern professionals in the center; they're wearing Ghorka suits, so it didn't make much sense to me that they're ME pros; they're Russians. Then, at right, we've got some Asian professional advisors, which the books say are "Hongbin Mercenaries" from North Korea. Again, let's not screw around, these are Chinese, they were just scared to say so (just like the Red Dawn re-make; North Korea invaded the United Stats, eh?).
The ISIS machine gun team. So here you get to two issues: first, I don't understand the headgear thing, haven't really seen anything like that before. I know the BPRE wargame is set in the fictional Arab nation of "Awbarri," but the bad guys in the book don't look like this. Second, my color choice of orange for the bad guys' goggles and optics may not have been the best idea…
In any case, well sculpted figures, pretty hefty dudes. I don't love the assault fire pose here; PKs aren't known for being particularly easy to control, but perhaps that is the point. You can certainly find countless videos of untrained irregulars firing PKs like this… and not hitting anything.
Closeup of some Russians in their Ghorka suits with some sort of AK-like suppressed weapons (tiny magazines, is that 9mm?).
And then the Chinese. These are the guys I dislike the most. They're great sculpts/figures, but part of what aggravates me is that, if you thought those Arabs were big, get a look at these Chinese (yes, I've seen some big Chinese, but c'mon). The real reason I don't love them is because I tried twelve different paint schemes and just didn't like any of them (trying to use a scheme that differentiates them from the Good Guys, ISIS, and Russians); finally I just settled on a brown color (Snakebite Leather, and they're all wearing scarves, which I painted red) that looks okay, not really happy with it.
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So, plenty of available targets! I actually have some more Chinese to paint up, as well as some guys for the Arctic. I'd like to get some vehicles as well, we'll see.
V/R,
Jack
